A forgotten Belgian genius dreamed up the internet over 100 years ago
Though we're pretty sure that time travelers
don't exist, people were working on hypertext -- used by web browsers
to retrieve connected information -- long before computers. It even
predates the ideas of a certain Vannevar Bush, the man generally
acknowledged as having laid the groundwork for hypertext by microfiche in a seminal 1945 article. Nope, according to the Atlantic,
some people were pondering ways of storing and retrieving information
prior even to the 20th century. A Belgian genius called Paul Otlet
posited an idea in 1895 about "universal libraries" to give anyone
access to a vast number of books. By 1934 he had refined it to
"electronic telescopes" that would connect people instantly to books,
films, audio recordings and photos.
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